Sleep Related Scratching: A Distinct Parasomnia?

Sexsomnia: parasomnia associated with sexual behaviour during sleep.

INTRODUCTION The purpose of our study is to describe 4 cases of sexsomnia, a form of parasomnia characterised by sexual behaviour during sleep. METHODS Clinical history and video-polysomnography recordings from patients diagnosed with sexsomnia in the Multidisciplinary Sleep Unit at Hospital Clínic in Barcelona. RESULTS Three men and one woman between 28 and 43 years of age reported sexual ...

Prevalence of Parasomnia in Autistic Children with Sleep Disorders

The prevalence of sleep related complaints is reported by questionnaire studies to be as high as 83.3% in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Questionnaire studies report the presence of various parasomnia in ASD. However, no polysomnographic study reports non-REM parasomnias and only a single study reports REM related parasomnias in ASD. We investigated the prevalence and characteri...

Catathrenia: parasomnia or uncommon feature of sleep disordered breathing?

OBJECTIVE We report a series of seven consecutive cases of catathrenia (sleep related groaning) that differ from limited previous reports in the literature with regard to sleep stage and response to treatment. BACKGROUND Catathrenia was recently defined as a parasomnia in the International Classification of Sleep Disorders Diagnostic and Coding Manual (ICSD-2), but there is debate about its c...

Sleep disorder associated with antibodies to IgLON5: parasomnia or agrypnia?

Sexsomnia — A New Parasomnia ? Colin

Parasomnias are well-described, common nocturnal phenomena. By definition, parasomnias are “events that occur intermittently or episodically during the night” (1,2). They may occur in any phase of sleep. Most parasomnias are characterized by partial arousals before, during, or after the event. There are several classifications of the major parasomnias—a widely used description of the types of p...